Late at night in summer heat Expensive car, empty street There's a wire in my jacket. This is my trade It only takes a moment, don't be afraid I can hot-wire an ignition like some kind of star I'm just a poor boy in a rich man's car So I whisper to the engine, flick on the lights And we drive into the night Oh the smell of the leather always excites my imagination And I picture myself in this different situation I'm a company director, two kids and a wife I get the feeling that there's more to this one's life There's some kind of complication, he tells her he's alone Spends the night with his lover, there's a trace of her cologne And the words of his mistress, as she whispers them so near Start ringing in my ear Please take me dancing tonight I've been all on my own You promised one day we could. It's what you said on the phone I'm just a prisoner of love always hid from the light Take me dancing, please take me dancing tonight I imagine his wife, she don't look nothing like a fool She picks the kids up from some private school She remembers what he told her, he was late and worked alone But there's more than a suspicion in this lingering cologne And the kids just won't be quiet and she runs a traffic light And she drives into the night Please take me dancing tonight I've been all on my own You promised one day we could it's what you said on the phone I'm just a prisoner of love always hid from the light Take me dancing, please take me dancing tonight So here I am in a stolen car at a traffic light They go from red to green and so I just drive into the night Please take me dancing tonight I've been all on my own You promised one day we could it's what you said on the phone I'm just a prisoner of love always hid from the light Take me dancing, please take me dancing tonight
Old enough to be her dad But the young men were just mad they nursed their grievances But she was flattered by his charm It wouldn't do her any harm they'd all had their chances He sent her flowers and limousines She was treated like a queen And anything she ever wanted Was no problem for a man like him And everyone expected soon That she could ask him for the moon If she would wear his ring Knowing glances from his friends In the homes at the weekends of high society But he didn't give a damn He never felt more like a man And all the time the clock was ticking And all would envy the older man and his beautiful young wife Yes, all would envy In a house upon a hill She was now with time to kill She lived a life she'd only dreamed But life was never what it seemed To all her friends that she'd ignored She denied that she was bored She had no time for dancing, no time for dancing But the clock upon the wall That was ticking in the hall Always reminded her That life was going on elsewhere But she was happy and she swear she wouldn't change a thing And all would envy the older man and his beautiful young wife Yes, all would envy Now it's five o'clock a.m. She must have spent the night again with that old friend of hers She loves to dance She's missing more and more these days But I'm still stuck in my old ways Perhaps she needs a little more romance But the clock upon the wall is still ticking in the hall She must be home soon Where a younger man would weep He takes a pill and goes to sleep Now who would envy the older man and his beautiful young wife? Now who would envy...?
This is your song you drive through the night! You're probably still working I don't know but I had to give this to you! Sometimes you just have to escape! Good night
